Moore pulled his hand away, but the entire exchange with the primate was caught on a camera attached to the officer's uniform.

"I wasn't angry. I was just more shocked and surprised than anything else," Moore told the New York Daily News.

Moore's boss, Chief Eric Blanchard, told ABC News today that the monkey, who works with the driver as an entertainer, had no teeth and wasn't able to bite down too hard on Moore. The department found the whole exchange humorous, he said.

The one person who may not have found it so humorous? The driver, who was ticketed for speeding anyway, Blanchard said.